Why don't the club try the novel idea of promoting their part time reserve players while players are injured.

I think most of our reserves are very young kids and not ready for Superleague yet, in many other Superleague clubs the reserves have a fair smattering of contracted squad players (our squad not big enough for that), who can make the step up. A number of our reserves will make the grade but they are kids and not quite ready yet. That said, TM has come out and said we can manage at the moment with the players we've got, but who knows if any negotiations are ongoing for short term fixes to our injury crisis

I know about your reserves i have seen four of there games this season and there is a couple of lads around the 20 age who should be given a chance in stead of bringing some one from the lower leagues.

I think I'd agree with that, you've seen more of the reserves than myself, but the idea of franchising is/was to give youngsters a chance.
It's the only way they gain experience, and as long as they are deemed good enough it is worth giving them a chance. I'm sure at least 2 of those 3 young Bulls players in the squad to play Wire will be chomping at the bit to impress, and will hopefully impress Steve McNamara enough to retain a place when some of the big names return from injury.

Having said that, I think having a relatively small squad we were told to expect the possibility of a mid-season recruit or depending on how things went. However, I would definately only bring in somebody if they were for the long term, not just a quick fix. If a quality player becomes available then I would like us to bring somebody in, but if it is an average player on a quick fix deal- then I'd sooner play one of the academy.

like wakefield did

Like Cas have done already?

Have we still got Sean Johnson?

He left us at the beginning of last year didn't he? I think he went to.. Doncaster?

He plays for Cas lock lane (i think)

WHEN
you have been nearly FULL strength so far

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He still trains but hasn't been picked so far this season.

so how many have played in the super leaque this season

Cas Academy Products:

Owen, Shenton, Westerman, Massey, Arundel (last season), Boyle, Huby.

That's 7 people who have played Super League that have come through our academy.

All quite young as well

Owen 18, Shenton 23, Westerman 19, Massey 19, boyle 21, huby 22.

Plus in previous seasons these current academy / reserves have played sueprleague:

Anthony England (2004) 20, Joe Arundel (200icon_cool.gif 19

And these current one have played first team in NL1 :

Matt Duckworth (2007) 20

NOall the players you have named are FULL TIME i said part time players like

wakey had to at hkr because of so many injuries

you only have 4 injuries so your 17 man sqaud will all be full time

The question was about bringing kids through to the first team. Who gives a sh*t about if or how you pay your players?

thats what iam talking about

That's because all the back-up youngsters we have in our squad are FULL TIME.

Such as Arundel, Cording, Davies, Thompson. Therefore we have no need to promote part-time players.

Two of those are soft.

Wel seeing as they are full time players, I would imagine they train with he 1st team every day!



I think what tans trying to say in his defense is that we actually ran out of full time players to pick from so we had to use two part time players in our squad against Hull KR. Think we had something like 13 or 14 full time players out injured at the time!

thank-you

Joe Arundel is a College student as well as playing for cas so not entirely full time